San Diego...FINALLY!

While this was the second of the Cure shows I attended my ticket was from last October when the tour was postponed to complete the new album (which STILL isn't out)! The set-list didn't contain as many surprises as the Shrine show (as expected) but the crowd was absolutely out of control. The band really seemed to feed off the crowd and I hadn't seen Robert this "chatty" between songs in any other show I've attended. Best songs for me were "Shake Dog Shake", "The Blood", "Play for Today" & and a SMOKING version of "A Forest". My itinerary of driving home after the show, showering and speeding to LAX to catch a flight to Chicago on no sleep to get to HQ for meetings wasn't the most pleasurable experience and made me realize I'm not 20 anymore...no more ALL-NIGHTERS for me (well unless the Cure comes around again). Here's the set-list, enjoy and get well wishes to Jon Anderson who is struggling with acute respiratory failure at 62.

Main Set:
Plainsong
Prayers For Rain
A Night Like This
The Walk
The End of the World
Lovesong
To Wish Impossible Things
Pictures Of You
Lullaby
Fascination Street
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
The Perfect Boy
Hot Hot Hot
The Only One
The Blood
Sleep When I'm Dead
Push
Inbetween Days
Just Like Heaven
Primary
Shake Dog Shake
The Baby Screams
One Hundred Years
Disintegration

1st Encore:
Boys Don't Cry
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Grinding Halt
10:15 Saturday Night
Killing An Arab
2nd Encore:
Lovecats
Let's Go To Bed
Freakshow
Close To Me
Why Can't I Be You?
3rd Encore:
Play For Today
A Forest (extended intro).

Dressing Up - an evening with The Cure - June 1, 2008

I knew that this evening had the potential to be something special when the gig got booked as a Fan Club event in an intimate arena but....WOW! I'm trying not to over senstionalize but having read several reviews on various web sites this morning with quotes like "life changing event" and "best concert I've ever seen in my life" it does make me appreciate exactly what I saw last night and that the show was truly that incredible! The concert lasted nearly three hours and contained mostly songs that weren't played at the Hollywood Bowl the previous night (where mostly the "hits" were played whereas tonight we got more obscure songs and frankly the ones you'd really want to hear if you were a long time fan). Of the Cure tours I've seen (Wild Mood Swings, Bloodflowers & Curiosa) this show was by far the best in terms of range and depth of songs played. The main set-list started and ended with "Bloodflowers" material and had a heavy dose of "Head on the Door" & "Disintegration" material as well. My personal highlights were "Kyoto Song", "Primary", "Push" & "The Baby Screams". The final of three encores was "Faith" which was played for the 1st time this tour. I'm heading to San Diego Tuesday night for the show at SDSU and then off to Chicago on business so the Blog will be updated over the weekend. While I'm looking forward to tomorrow evening there is no way it will be match last night, but here's hoping for "Charlotte Sometimes", "Doing the Unstuck" or "Shake Dog Shake"!

Set-List:

Out of this World - Bloodflowers

Pictures of You - Disintegration

Fascination Street - Disintegration

alt.end - The Cure

A Strange Day - Pornography

The End of the World - The Cure

The Baby Screams - Head on the Door

Lovesong - Disintegration

Sleep When I'm Dead - new song from upcoming album

From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea - Wish

Lullaby - Disintegration

The Perfect Boy - new song from upcoming album

Kyoto Song - Head on the Door

The Only One - new single to be on the upcoming album

Push - Head on the Door

How Beautiful You Are - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Inbetween Days - Head on the Door

Just Like Heaven - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Primary - Faith

Us or Them - The Cure

Signal to Noise - Join the Dots ("B" side)

One Hundred Years - Pornography

Bloodflowers - Bloodflowers

Encore #1:

Plainsong - Disintegration

Disintegration - Disintegration

Encore #2:

Three Imaginary Boys - Three Imaginary Boys

Fire in Cairo - Three Imaginary Boys

Boys Don't Cry - Boys Don't Cry

Jumping Someone Elses Train - Boys Don't Cry

Grinding Halt - Boys Don't Cry

10:15 Saturday Night - Boys Don't Cry

Killing an Arab - Boys Don't Cry

Encore #3:

Faith - Faith